"malnar" hidden in books

making a little nod and raising

indeed?' said Dangerfield, dryly, making a little nod, and raising his eyebrows, and just moving a little a one side—''Twas a nasty affair.'
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

moved a little nearer and reached

She moved a little nearer, and reached timidly through the bars with the breathless quiet of one who offers a caress to a sleeper.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

melted away leaving not a rag

They dodge as they can from shade to shade; but at last the sunshine floods the whole space, and they seem to have melted away, leaving not a rag of themselves or what they dealt in.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

make a loud noise and rejoice

19:098:004 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

men as Lord North and Roger

He was perpetually thwarted, crossed, calumniated, subjected to coarse and indecent insults, even from such brave men as Lord North and Roger Williams, and in the very presence of the commander-in-chief, so that his talents were of no avail, and he was most anxious to be gone from the country.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1586d by John Lothrop Motley

moustache a long nose a rather

A tall young man, slight and clean-limbed, with a well-shaped head so closely shaven as to suggest a Newgate barber; a long fair moustache, a long nose, a rather large mouth, luminous azure eyes, and a complexion the sun has vainly tried to brown, reducing it merely to a deeper flesh-tint.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

Mendelssohn and Longfellow Nietzsche and Richard

[215] Thanks to machine-made music, the day is coming the sooner when we shall behold, as neighbors in the ordinary bookcase, such pairs of counterparts as Milton and Bach, Beethoven and Shakespeare, Loeffler and Maeterlinck, Byron and Tschaikowsky, Mendelssohn and Longfellow, Nietzsche and Richard Strauss.
— from The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

Miguel at length noticed a ruined

Don Miguel at length noticed a ruined hacienda about five miles to their right; though precarious, the shelter it afforded was better than bivouacking on the plain.
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

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